As I observe other liquid based websites, I see two commonly used techniques on displaying columns, the fixed columns and the liquid columns. There are drawbacks to both that I would like to point out, and later would like to pitch my solution.

This tutorial describes a really simple CSS trick to implement a fake equal height columns effect using the CSS properties position:absolute and border. Before to proceed I suggest you to download my CSS 2 Visual Cheat Sheet for a practical reference guide to CSS 2 properties that can help you understand concepts illustrated in this post.